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lost engine found ...AFTER 20 YEARS!!!! - 6/14/2008 6:29:52 AM   
foodstick


 

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Status: online 		Once upon a time there was a great hobbyshop named Marbles Hobby Supply..It was located on the south east side of Des Moines in a mostly undeveloped area. It was up on a hill along some rolling woods, next to some train tracks, then river bottom area down below ... (which is flooded now ) ..

Anyhow, a few years before I started flying some daredevil had his big new glow motor break a motor mount and go zooming off to who knows where... Now I know those guys never let it lay long without rounding up a search party.. but it was a sly motor and covered its tracks well. years go by, and everytime someone went out in the woods, you would hear the tale of the one that got away... "Keep an eye out for that motor" you would hear as you trudged over the knoll. I think most of us had started to think of the story as a folk tale, a lesson hard learned about building your planes correct.. maybe even an alien abdution gone wrong ,ha ha

Even extended searchs where a guy and his girlfriend might spend an hour looking for what seemed an easy recovery....that motor went undiscovered...Nobody ever thought to bring in a MOTOR-WHISPERER, or build some experimental motor devining rod...possibly a crime psychic would have been of use if she would have laid hands on the other half of the motor mount still attached to the plane ?

All I know is when someone walks hunched over for hours ....and says "Thats a right odd looking mushroom" The case had been solved!

It was sitting proudly on the case at the Main hobby shop in Urbandale ( Hobby Haven ) last time I heard.. cooling fins corroded nearly solid, and froze up solid ( who'd a thought! )

I wonder if it was down on the ground the whole time, or maybe hung in the top of a tree for awhile..just to enjoy the air and view... The old cruddy plastic prop looks like you could pull it off and it would work just as bad now as when it was new....

I'm not going to do it though..maybe it was the prop that flew away..and just took the motor with it...
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RE: lost engine found ...AFTER 20 YEARS!!!! - 6/14/2008 2:59:33 PM   
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RE: lost engine found ...AFTER 20 YEARS!!!! - 6/14/2008 9:34:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		Ah the great days of Marble's that would be were I got my start as a youngster. Oh the days of old. Now if I could just find some of my ever eluding missing items that have flown away. Let me know if you develop the airplane finding stick i could use it..

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RE: lost engine found ...AFTER 20 YEARS!!!! - 6/16/2008 12:03:58 AM   
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Status: offline 		Sounds like bad news to me!

Now what's the excuse for a guy to take his girlfriend for a walk in the long grass gonna be?

Hey, honey, lets go take a walk and look for that motor just isn't going to cut it now!

Terry

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RE: lost engine found ...AFTER 20 YEARS!!!! - 6/21/2008 10:52:11 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Redback

Sounds like bad news to me!

Now what's the excuse for a guy to take his girlfriend for a walk in the long grass gonna be?

Hey, honey, lets go take a walk and look for that motor just isn't going to cut it now!

Terry


Yeah, likely story! Great RC tale though.

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RE: lost engine found ...AFTER 20 YEARS!!!! - 9/23/2008 6:51:42 PM   
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RE: lost engine found ...AFTER 20 YEARS!!!! - 9/23/2008 10:09:37 PM   
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RE: lost engine found ...AFTER 20 YEARS!!!! - 9/25/2008 4:02:13 AM   
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RE: lost engine found ...AFTER 20 YEARS!!!! - 9/25/2008 3:15:27 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm afraid that even if you bead blasted it there would be nothing left to work with, just build a glass and mahogony case for it with a plaque inside saying "The worlds ugliest mushroom" and put it on the mantle in the living room.

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RE: lost engine found ...AFTER 20 YEARS!!!! - 9/25/2008 3:56:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		So, why did it seperate? Over tightened the bolts stress cracking the mount at the rear bolt holes? Devine intervention? Heck, what brand and size is that thing... err was it?

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RE: lost engine found ...AFTER 20 YEARS!!!! - 9/25/2008 7:42:31 PM   
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RE: lost engine found ...AFTER 20 YEARS!!!! - 9/26/2008 4:37:11 AM   
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RE: lost engine found ...AFTER 20 YEARS!!!! - 9/28/2008 2:52:14 AM   
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Status: offline 		the muffler is a tatone exhaust manifold.and yes it does look like the aluminum mount failed at the rear clamping bolts.carb looks similar to a super tigre .

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RE: lost engine found ...AFTER 20 YEARS!!!! - 9/29/2008 4:35:06 AM   
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RE: lost engine found ...AFTER 20 YEARS!!!! - 9/29/2008 6:06:48 PM   
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